-Caveat Lector- > Kyoto Collapses In The Hague > > Dec. 6, 2000 by: Phyllis Schlafly > > The collapse of the global warming treaty negotiations in The Hague > last week illustrates the folly of the Clinton-Gore globalists who > want > to give a consortium of foreigners the power to regulate the American > standard of living. The conference ended with a cream pie in the > face, > literally, of U.S. representative Frank E. Loy, and egg all over the > faces, figuratively, of the Clinton-Gore globalists who have been > promoting this treaty for years. > > Called the Kyoto Protocol, the proposed treaty was agreed to in > Japan by 175 countries in 1997, and The Hague conference was > supposed to fill in the fine print with rules and penalties. Al Gore > attended the Kyoto Conference, agreed to the treaty, and later signed > it in New York. > > The treaty would commit the United States and three dozen industrial > countries to cut their greenhouse-gas emissions by the year 2012 to > at least 5 percent below their 1990 levels. This would require a > tremendous reduction in our use of energy. > > The ideology behind this radical objective is to subordinate our > standard of living, which is largely based on the use of fossil > fuels, to > the supremacy of global ecology. Or, as Al Gore says in the title of > his book, force us to put "Earth in the Balance." > > There is nothing "balanced" about the ideology or the treaty. The > ideology is the new religion of worshiping Mother Earth, and the > treaty would codify newly invented and manifestly unequal global > regulations devised by the environmental extremists. > > Developing countries, including China, India and Mexico, and oil > exporters including Saudi Arabia, seek enforceable global rules from > which they would be exempt. China and India were so adamant about > refusing to initiate climate-protection programs that this wasn't > even > on the agenda. > > Any successful agreement for a global commission to regulate > personal and industrial use of energy would have to be based on a > community of purpose and interests by the signers. The Hague > conference displayed the hopelessness of this venture and the > passionate diversity of the participants. > > What the United States stands to gain, if anything, by the treaty is > unclear. The dominant interest of Third World countries is their > demand for the United States to finance their dictators in a > lifestyle to > which they would like to become accustomed. > > The poor nations are demanding that the U.S. build projects in their > countries for climate protection, pollution cutting, "clean coal," > and > forest protection, but are even unwilling to allow us any "credits" > for > these handouts in meeting our emissions goals. As an envious > Nigerian declaimed, "They have caused the problems, they have > made the whole world unsafe." > > Curdling beneath the surface were the demands of countries with > diametrically opposed interests. In some nations the climate is too > hot and they don't want it any hotter, while other nations hope > global > warming will make their crops more abundant. > > Some countries, such as the United States, can meet emission- > reduction goals because their large forests function as a "sink" to > naturally absorb the main greenhouse gas, carbon dioxide coming > from our tailpipes and smokestacks. America's vast forests absorb > up to 300 million tons a year of carbon dioxide and could get us > halfway toward the treaty's goals, but other countries reject this as > a > "free ride." > > Regulations are opposed by countries that are completely dependent > on politically incorrect coal or oil and would be devastated by the > new > regulations. Regulations are favored by low-lying countries that > worry > about the rising of the seas that is predicted if the earth warms and > ocean ice melts. > > Some countries have already subjected their industries to heavy > socialistic regulations and want to impose the same on the rest of > the world. Other countries value their freedom from regulations. > > To facilitate the redistribution of U.S. wealth to Third World > dictatorships, The Hague conferees proposed a plan to allow rich > nations to "buy" emissions credits from poor nations, presumably the > small countries which usually gang up against U.S. interests. > However, the biggest poor country is Russia, whose economy is so > devastated that it can't afford industrial production to produce > emissions anyway. > > The collapse of the Russian economy has produced a windfall of > possible pollution "credits" that Russia can sell to countries > unwilling > to reduce emissions. Translated, that means the U.S. taxpayers > would pay tribute to Russia in order to be allowed to maintain our > current standard of living. > > Nuclear power, which produces energy without greenhouse > emissions, is another sticking point. The environmentalists have > prevented the construction of modern nuclear plants in the United > States, but other countries have no such restrictions and France > relies heavily on nuclear plants for its electricity. > > No one was satisfied. The only agreement was to meet again in May > in Germany and in October in Morocco. > > A Canadian said he was so ashamed of his country that he burned > his passport. We'd all be better off if the Clinton-Gore > representatives > burned their passports, too, and didn't come home. > > > Phyllis Schlafly column 12-06-00 > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ > EXCLUSIVE REPORT! > Report from the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change > Sixth Session of the Conference of the Parties (COP 6) > Eagle Forum Correspondent Cathie Adams reporting from The > Hague, Netherlands. > http://eagleforum.org/un/netherlands/00-11-13.shtml > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ > > Online version of this column: > http://eagleforum.org/column/2000/dec00/00-12-06.shtml > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ > Eagle Forum http://www.eagleforum.org > PO Box 618 [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Alton, IL 62002 Phone: 618-462-5415 > Fax: 618-462-8909 > --------------------------------------------------------------- > NEW DIRECTIONS TO SUBSCRIBE AND UNSUBSCRIBE: > > USE OUR FORM: > http://eagleforum.org/misc/subscribe.html > __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? 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